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| A: | Isn't it cute? |
| S: | Liebig Condensers? |
| A: | Yes |
| P: | Hand crafted glass |
| A: | Another time shift. They have the beauty of an old pitchfork or a horse drawn cart. |
| S: | So why is this an ingredient in the gumbo? |
| P: | It's the no going back part. I'm not sure that it is any comfort, perhaps it is too factual? |
| S: | Of the three I like the toned black and white one best. You would probably think that a heresy? |
| P: | No that's simply your pleasure in history |
| A: | Oh Stanley it's so comfortable, the black and white nostalgia for a perceived golden age. In retrospect black and white photography seems so err.. obvious. |
| S: | You mean in it's reading? |
| A: | Yes the formal grey scale tonal arrangements offering themselves for an intuitive golden section analysis, the collective memory of artefacts and of time passed; it's easy. The colour representation is shock horror brashness, I like it more. |
| S: | And the one with the textual analysis? |
| A: | Structuralism's reductio ad absurdum, a path that led nowhere. |
| S: | So Albertina are you saying that the visual research in the seventies was a waste of time? |
| A: | No in any research a negative result is as valuable as a positive one in deciding your next move. With a negative you don't strike gold, but you know where not to dig. What time is it Peter? |
| P: | It's nearly four |
| A: | Shall we go? |